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HYUNDAI has announced that the 500,000th car has driven out of its import centre in the Port of Tilbury, Essex. The facility was opened on March 1, 1999 and in 13 years has received and delivered half a million Hyundai vehicles to dealerships and customers around the UK. Every Hyundai that arrives at Tilbury’s docks [...]

HYUNDAI UK’s managing director Tony Whitehorn has been appointed president and CEO of Hyundai Motor UK. President of the Korean firm, Mr Han, made the announcement today at Hyundai Motor UK’s annual dealer conference, held at the ICC in Birmingham. It’s the first time in the history of Hyundai Motor Europe that a managing director [...]

The managing director of Hyundai UK tells JAMES BATCHELOR that the company’s sleek new i40 is a car designed in Europe for Europe Why is the i40 so important for Hyundai? Simple – it embodies everything Hyundai is trying to do. We need to make our cars look fantastic and sleek, and the i40 saloon [...]

On paper Hyundai has got a new stylish and well-equipped d-segment car. But is it any good? JAMES BATCHELOR finds out WHAT IS IT? The i40 has an enormous task on its hands. Not only is the Korean firm pitching it against established D-segment cars like the Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall’s Insignia, but also the i40 [...]